Resources

Pre-Redesign User Feedback - lots of comments and suggestions from users about the install process from before we started the redesign.

Goals

make the defaults work such that you can just click next all the way through

reduce the number of questions to just the important stuff.

Where does choice happen?

Different spins

Boot menu option (default=easy and an "advanced" option)

Selection screen when anaconda starts

"advanced" buttons in the anaconda pages

PackageKit post-install

Questions

Does live media allow to choose language for the installation? (Does the language choice during the USB stick bootup affect installer language?)

Yes. Choosing a language in gdm makes anaconda use it and it becomes the installed system's default. I installed f14 from a live usb in Spanish and that's the default lang now. --Ivancjimenez 21:56, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Use Cases

"Back button selects US English keyboard, even though I have now specified UK keyboard *twice*"

keyboard shortcuts / no mouse

install of virt machines

Live image

"I believe the Ubuntu installer under discussion is the live installer. Like Fedora, there is no package selection involved there. Ubuntu gains considerable simplicity by having a separate installer app for live images and making that its default installer - I'm no expert, but I think the 'advanced' installer you can use for network installs and custom package selection and LVM and RAID and all that stuff is essentially Debian's installer, and is a completely different experience to the Ubuntu installer."

Dual-boot (second neighbor or first neighbor)

"user wants to either replace the current System completely or install the distribution into free space on his HD and but into either the old or the new installed system."